Yeah space compute centers are idiotic. Even if it could be made profitable it would be such a stupid idea.

The people pushing for privatization of space desperately are looking for profitable uses cases. There is a recent breakthrough with "hollow fiber optic cables" that makes the future promise of faster ping with Starlink mostly irrelevant too.

We should be building a moon base and explore mining and industry and something like a railgun to shoot back stuff back to earth. That would be the logical next step for humanity. But don't try to commercially exploit space, that is just stupid.